The Islamic Socialist Party (Arabic: الحزب الإسلامي الاشتراكي) is a Sudanese political party. It re-formed in 1964 under this name following a split in the Islamic Liberation Front (حركة التحرير الاسلامي), originally founded in 1949.
History
The Islamic Liberation Front was founded in March[citation needed] 1949[1] by Mirghani Al-Nasri.[2] The party spread amongst University of Khartoum and secondary school students. It was a revivalist Islamic movement with a tendency of locality and nationality. In 1951, the front's candidates won the elections to the leadership of the University of Khartoum Student Union (KUSU), as well as student unions at some secondary schools.
Following the 1953 agreement between Sudanese political parties for self-determination in Cairo,[clarification needed] the front's name was changed to Gama'a Islamyia. The new organization published its constitution and manifesto expounding the main principles of the former Islamic Liberation Movement, which were anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and socialist. The manifesto was titled "Al-Gama'a Al-Islamya Daw'a wa Minhag" (The Gama'a Islamyia: A call and a program). The movement directed its efforts towards the trade unions of workers, farmers, students and intellectuals in Sudan.[citation needed]
After the Islamic Charter Front split from the group as a separate party under Hassan Al-Turabi in 1964, Al-Nasri co-founded the Islamic Socialist Party with Babikir Karrar, another leader in the movement.[2]
